Release 1.5.0

[pellared]

Configuration

Bugfixes

• Remove SPLUNK_METRICS_ENDPOINT from Instrumentation Libraries (it was never really stable).

Enhancements

• Add SPLUNK_PROFILER_MEMORY_ENABLED.
• Deprecate jaeger-thrift-splunk option for OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER.
• Remove the policy regarding Zipkin exporter.
• OTLP exporter can use either grpc or http/protobuf as the default transport protocol.

Repository

Enhancements

• Add tag protection rule requirement.
• Add Dependabot security configuration requirements.
• Grant Admin role for maintainers team.
• Allow using the documentation public repository and reference it in the CONTRIBUTING.md template.
• Require documenting all configuration parameters that are relevant to Splunk Observability Cloud.
• Require documenting all configuration parameters whose default or accepted values deviate from upstream.

Semantic Conventions

Breaking Changes

• Remove telemetry.sdk.language attribute from ResourceLogs.resource.

Bugfixes

• Remove redunant and conflicting statement about file and line for ResourceLogs.

Enhancements

• Recommened adding container.id, host.id, process.pid attributes to ResourceLogs.resource.
• Recommend setting process resource attributes.
• Recommend collecting runtime environment metrics.
• Add a required profiling.data.total.frame.count attribute to LogRecord for pprof-gzip-base64.
• Relax the meaning of allocation in LogRecord for pprof-gzip-base64.